The Useless PC ( NO it's NOT )
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Hi everyone and thank you for 14 minutes of your time. In this video we have a PC that has been out of use for years. The blue screen problem was very unusual and hard to locate, even I almost missed the source of the problem. Previously the computer has visit some repair sores but always return with no solution ( except change the motherboard ). Fortunately, I spotted it.
This is an old Gigabyte PC but still good for many things and can be still used for doing some tasks or gaming. Current specs ( just to run tests ) 8GB DDR3 RAM and GTX 690 ( Dual GPU ). Future specs, 16GB of RAM and GTX 1050ti. Maybe this is an old PC that has high sentimental value to someone. Games in this video: Assassins' Creed Odyssey and Crysis 3 ( regular Not Remaster )
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You should do more old PC restoration.
For real!
and also paint jobs, this channel do it particulary good
I second that
Was looking for your touch, a piant job😢
@@dblakewood1907 I completely agree
Another computer saved from the landfill. Great work, Andrew.
Your content is top tier. I'd love to see you restoring an EliteBook 8770w or another mobile workstation from HP and upgrading their CPUs and MXM GPUs
A Bios firmware update to version U1D(UEFI BIOS) appears to be offered on Gigabyte's GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 support site. However, a switch to "UEFI enabled" bios setting may also require re-installing Windows.
you can actually fix an installed windows to make it transition without reinstalling
That degreaser is surprisingly good against the smoke stains on the case! I'll have to keep that in mind :)
Nice PC!
no one will forget the GTX 10 series. RIP GTX 1060 6GB 2023.
The 10 series are still good and with better build quality then the newer ones
@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew frfr
Always great to watch you work your magic on computers that were destined for the scrap heap. You are a true wizard with these devices. Plus, I really enjoy watching old pcs being resurrected. I would never pass up a chance to watch one getting the full Andrew treatment.
Thank youuu :)
Looks like the PC has been in an environment with a someone who smokes, if I remember rightly the sticky gunk can become conductive and cause unusual shorts.
Yep, it's from smoke
Recently, me and my friends made a LAN party. As we played only old games or e-sports ones, I used my old pcs that I refurbished thanks to this channel. It was a great experience playing with friends in the same spot. Thanks Andrew for your ideas.
Sometimes we do Lan party as well, we play older battlefield series :D
Such a good idea!
Yes, absolutely, there is nothing better than "getting the guys over" for beer, pizza and a LAN party!
It's why I have zero interest in multiplayer online gaming because shouting and swearing at your best friends when they've just headshotted you is so funny!
Nothing like an offline Lan and battelfield 2 with new maps
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The channel's name is Cat & Andrew, yet there's an obvious lack of "cat" 🤔 .... where's the CAT !!!!
CAT stands for computer and thechnology
the pc case was released in 2008 the gigabyte poseidon
Not bad - with 2nd gen i5 CPU, this PC is certainly NOT useless. With a decent SSD as its boot drive (I would pick Crucial MX500 500GB), as well as a decent hard drive (2TB) and 32GB RAM, this would still be a pretty decent computer nowadays for basic tasks, and for games from around this PC's era.
32gb is pretty overboard imo
@@detecta Not really. With how things are nowadays with games and other programs, the more RAM you can have, the better!
@@TheSpotify95 i mean most games from the pcs era had like 8gb recommended specs and 8-16gb is still good for basic tasks
I've recently upgraded my modern gaming pc (5600x+RX6600) from 16gb 3200MHz to 32Gb 3600Mhz and apart from Hogwarts Legacy, no games that I have tested made the *total* ram usage (with Windows 11, which manages to use more ram than Win10) to cross over the 16Gb mark, so yes, 32Gb in that pc is definitely overkill and unnecessary, even with it being cheap. Also, you do not need 32Gb for "basic tasks".
A better idea would be to have only solid-state storage, and maybe upgrading the CPU, since the motherboard is good and support up to a 3rd gen Core-i7. And definitely staying in Windows 10.
Just a heads up
You can use a mechanical pencil to straighten socket pins. It is way easier to bend them back into the correct position
Awesome content as usual
Tried setting right some bent pins recently and broke almost all 6 of them. The system still works but I wouldn't dare use it for anything useful.
PC may be hacked after resetting
I have bought a second hand PC and I have a doubt that the old PC can be hacked so please clear the doubt please help me.
You can change the disk and Install fresh operating system. Also you can use some antivirus with additional protection. These are some basic things to protect yourself from some malware or virus
that computer belonged to a smoker i call tell just by the color of the stuff on it its tar from cigarettes i have a slightly newer MSI board witha 4th gen cpu that acts as my plex server
Yep the yellow it's from cigarettes
Sir please give me this PC 😢 I am student I have no second hand PC and laptop I have no money to buy laptop and PC 😢 u r help me
I am your big fan I like your work ❤
I can understand, you can't give me this PC. Because if you do ship in India, it will cost you a lot of money. 😅😅
Ok love you work love from India 🙏🙏
Amazing work! Looks like new 😊
Thank youu :)
I still use an i7 860 paired with an rx 570 8gb, still very capable of running a lot of modern games
You never fail entertaining me. Greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina !
Thank youuu :)
This is Not a Computer. Its A memory
I used this MOBO and the I7 from 2013 to 2018 and I bet if the CPU didn't die I may still be using it today
I would suggest using an ultrasonic cleaning for such greasy and dirty components. That could also remove possible dirt from underneath the chips, where the brush and isopropyl could not. Anyway, great work!
I daily drive a 3770k but ive never been able to overclock it due to a factory Intel board. I cannot find a cheap and good 1155 board to switch to.
The 3770K is still good, for these CPUs good motherboards are ASUS P8Z77 or Asus sabertooth Z77 or something from Gigabyte Z77X, these were my dream motherboards
@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew Yes , but try to find one working or cheap or that does t need a full re-capping job. It's not so easy.
im still rocking the cpu only changing the mobo and add extra ram cheers
That's very nice. I have some similar PCs from 2010 to 2012 and since I'm not a gamer, they are very useful for me and I enjoy having the good quality components.
Museum you need ?
@@lucasrem I think I have one. 🙂
that clean up was so satisfying to watch, Cheers !
Andrew can you tell me is there any way that we can make a pc box ?
All those cleaning and side planel still got a gaint circle of dirt.
I have the exact same casing gigabyte poseidon
This is a really interesting job. I wonder if we aren't reaching the stage where a desktop PC couldn't be built with the specific intention of being future proofed to be upgradeable for 25 years.
anyone have a pc which is low end than this
like here
that wouldve been a near top of the line pc 10 years ago. hell even 5 years ago that pc wouldve been just fine, thats the pc i wanted to build when i built my first pc but couldnt afford.
Same bro, back then I can afford only to stare at these motherboards and components :D
That brown gunk inside the case and fans + stickyness reminds me about when i got one old pc from guy who was vaping next to it. That vapejuice was all over the place and pretty nasty stuff when i tried to clean it
This is from smoking I can feel that :D
my pc config i5 2400 & Sabertooth z77 and GTX 980 & 8GB ddr3 1600Mhz
Sabertooth Z77 one of the best motherboards ever, and one of my favorites :)
Hi Andrew, can this motherboard run i7 2700K? It would be a beast compared to the i5-2500
Yes, this mobo will support i7 2700K
Those scorch marks on the top of that case before cleaning gave me shivers. I owned one of those boards, ended up selling the system who knows how many years ago but back then I used to love Gigabyte boards. Quite the restoration, end result looks great. And definitely not useless. I have a couple Xeon systems from around the same time currently running my NAS and proxmox servers, finally getting around to upgrading them but considering what I paid for them and the use I got out of them I'll be kind of sad to retire them.
As long as there is no chip level repair needed, the restoration of old PC's is very cheap and worth the effort. But as soon as you realise some socket or chip needs to be changed, the price of repair goes so high that it's better to discard the entire component. What a waste!!!
yep, not worth some expensive repairs, except if something has some sentimental value to someone
My only comment is the ram. Please use the 2nd and 4th slot as per manufacture suggestion. It works better.
I test the RAM slots and I live it, but not many people has noted that detail, good spotting 👍and yes you are right the 2nd and 4th slot and the first ones
WOW, that cable management!! I would not have had the patience to do that, The PC looks great!!
Is not some good management, just enough to put the cables aside
How to know if the PC has a windows 7 license ? Was there a sticker with product key, or was it on hard disk drive ? Thanks
I found a part of the sticker, anyway, the license is connected with the motherboard as well, in some cases you can check in bios that
You can clean motherboards in the sink, completely immersing them in hot soapy water and use various brushes (paintbrush, toothbrush) for different areas, or even put them in a dishwasher. But be careful of the socket, use the original cover if you have it and clean it separately using a artist's watercolour brush and isopropyl. Give it a final rinse in warm distilled water if you're OCD like me! Whichever method, the CMOS battery has to be out and make VERY sure to give it time to air-dry thoroughly (maybe 48 hours, or a several hours in a warm c. 60°C oven).
I hope your do more desktop PC restoration! This one is very cool to watch!
I always liked your restoration videos.
Thank youu :)
Only satisfaction watching your videos. Great job!
Thank youuu :)
I can smell that computer from here 😅. The previous owner did perhaps smoke?
Yeah :D heavy smoker
Funny, I have the Same botherboard and cpu combo at home and I have the Same problem!😅
First check the other components, the CPU has been removed previously here and that's how the problem began
Sandy Bridge run pretty hot in my experience compared to their newer Ivy Bridge brothers, so definitely worth using a good cooler and not this stock cooler style garbage.
I have no idea why old gaming PCs all seem to forget about cooling
The RAM are on the wrong slots though. They should be on A2 B2, not A1 B1. Other than that, good job!
Yea :D I just live like that, actually I test the RAM slots, but this detail only few has noted
Always 10/10 videos. Keep on doing these videos .
Thank youu :)
I have a similar motherboard.
that is nicotine damn i feel sorry for that pc must've had asthma at this point lol
Yeah it's from smoke :D
Still have PC just like on video that now just seems never used as Today finding exact Hardware is no longer as easy as before. Even can, may not as good as at that time
This is just IMO, btw
Hi bro, I'm a retired IT tech. This was my daily work until few years ago for almost 25 years. Kinda remind me to my younger times when watching this video.
Every motherboard that has at least "4 slots" of RAM ?, "Can you make a video like that bro ?" come on man I think you catches a big fish :D
Hello Andrew, I'm from India. And I love to watch your video. I want ask something that, how do you restore the window-key? After changing tha disk.
Hi bro, actually the Windows key / License is connected with the motherboard and not with the disk. In most cases the windows will accept the key automatically but sometimes need to do very short and simple online activation.
@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew Thanks bro, actually I have recently update my laptop💻 from sata hhd to sata ssd and after few days it has been shown that activate widows and I confused to what to do. So please can you make a detailed video on this topic, that how to restore the window key from motherboard.
First!
Ngl, I've been using an AMD FX PC I got from the recycling center, which was about to be thrown out quite a bit, and it's not a bad system, especially for basic web browsing. it plays minecraft pretty well so far and it definitely play roblox very well too. It also can play teardown at a fairly decent performance. it essentially can do light gaming. It has an AMD FX-6300, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, 256 GB NVMe, R9 270X, and ASRock 970a-g/3.1. It's able to run windows 11 pretty well despite it's age, which shows how absurd their fake requirements are.
Nice video! It's crazy that now these computers are 10+ years old, since I remember these things from my childhood very well.
'Enthusiast' gamers and the industry as a whole really tend to herd people into believing that anything over a couple years old might as well be used as a door-stop. It's bollox - I just resurrected my old i7-3770K running at 4.5GHz / 1.25V (admittedly delidded / LM'd) Asus P8Z77-V MB, GTX 1070. It'll play pretty much anything if the settings are right (tested it with Halo Infinite mid-settings 1080P and it's flawless), and for older (dare I say) classics like the Crysis series you can revisit them at high settings, c. 1440P and see them as you probably never did when they were released in the 2000's. I'm probably going to sell it for £200-250 and someone (maybe a youngster) is going to have a lot of fun with it.
Years ago i was given for free a bricked gigabyte Z77. Thnx to dual bios i recovered it, bought a cheap Xeon E3-1270(similar to i7 2600) and with 16GB ram it still my main pc(has a 1650 DDR6 atm). Some month ago i found a 9020sff competely naked, only mobo was inside. Fixed its bent pins,cleaned the sticky ram slots, cased swapped it, replaced my fx htpc ;). I love older pc/laptops, been donating them to friends and neighbours.
Thank you for another awesome video. I found two dell Vostro 3902s in the dumpster and took them home. I tested them and they worked fine. I have one problem though. they did not have power supplies and I've been looking everywhere for one with no luck. Do you have any suggestions on any other power supply I can use even if its not a dell one?
These PSUs are smaller factor, you can check some computer shops that sell used stuff, it's going to be much cheaper than ordering from amazon or aliexpress or ebay
@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew thank you very much
It'd make a perfect server using FreeBSD and ZFS:
6 Sata SSDs, an HBA PCIe card and 6 3.5" HDDs several pcie ethernet adapters and 32 GB DDR3 memory...
Useless PC, definitely NOT at all. It's still running that well as long as you have installed 2 of 8GB DDR3 RAM sticks. Let's say that you retire this old PC & move on to newer gaming PC, then you can sell or give it to your friends or relatives that need the PC just for productivity works & light gaming.
Hey, is better an old using computer a sleeper with no LEDRGB Lights.
Second, can even use livestream for YT with this PC sleeping after Modified!! 🤔
I love hear computers. Since I was 10 I search in recycling bins for old pcs and restore them like you. Being 15 now, I can’t thank you more!
2500K is still a beast if you game on 1080p and dont worry about Ray Tracing.. even without OC lol
Nice restoration.. do more your are really artist in paint work to .will like to see😊
I always say the same thing in 2014 with a good Dual Core 4GB and a GTX 750 everything went well, after 2015 it seems like a competition of who gets the best rehash, you can never keep up with the hardware
LGA 1155 is a my favorite plataform, i haven' two Motherboards with (i3 - 2120 and Xeon 1260L) so is good performance.
That PC is from 2011, just wondering who put a floppy disk drive in that rig, which already had been out of time then...
That computer was in a smokers environment, reason for the brown stains. I've done this many times for parts I had given to me from a friend who smokes in his house. He saved me quite a bit of money thru the years when he upgraded his computers. I never complained about it, I just took the parts and cleaned them up and used them. Most parts were good, a few didn't work out so well. What I discovered on cleaning motherboards is to hold them up right vertical position on a towel, and using a spray bottle with 92 percent alcohol, spray it clean. Start from the top of the board and spray until you get to the bottom and all that junk runs downhill on the towel leaving the board spotless. Repeat if necessary while having everything completely apart, GPU's included, then reassemble. Some hardware parts can be soaked in bleach water then rinsed, it will melt away nicotine stains like magic in seconds and requires no scrubbing looking like new, fans included, then bone dried off.
Nice! Why not stick an RTX 2060 into it and use some DLSS2?!
Merging it to the future.
That ai frame generation could pull it out of the rust of the past!
I have a similar board and cpu running AAA games today😂😂 no joke
I can make an amateur short video about revitalising it of you want. It’s still powerful surprisingly.
nice save man. I built a ddr5 build, but I saved a 2009 computer, well the parts of two really, to create a properly one. It felt better saving this max 8gb baby from trash.
I wish I could send this guy my old Alienware laptop to be restored and upgraded. Poor thing is on its last leg. Alienware 17 from 2013, a real trooper 😔🤘🏼
Dear Andrew and everybody
I am restored a toshiba sattelite with a glossy carcasse surface. I wanna to paint it, but I need some tip. What type of paint shall I use? Acrillic is ok? Its enogh, if I use 2-3 layer, or I need to use transparent lac, and fundation?
This was one of the worst motherboards I have used back in that time. Had an i7 2nd gen with 2x 670 in SLI and I had 2 of these mobo died on me switched to asrock and didn't buy GB boards for about 10+ years.
Sandy and Ivy Bridge are true warriors and can still bring a lot of joy today. Enthusiasts even change the BIOS of these cards so that we can boot with NVME SSDs on the PCI-E adapter. I did this on a Sabbertooth Z77 with i5-3470.
I agree, plus these motherboards were with top quality, todays motherboards compared are like a cardboard. Btw the sabbertooth Z77 is awesome motherboard I always like it, especially with the cover
Seen that type of dust many times before, that PC definitely belonged to a smoker. Probably why everything is sticky too.
good cleanup..... on my rebuilds I take out all chassis blanks that come with the chassis and add fan guards to all the fans were applicable. adding fan guards makes it safer to service the system while it is on... how many time have you pricked your fingers on fan blades?
May I request: Please make a build using an old dell optiplex 3020 with i5-4590 CPU.
Nice restoration here. Simple but it’s always good to watch.
Why are so many TH-camrs obsessed with using ASMR mic settings that make the spit sloshing in their mouth so disgustingly audible when they talk?
Splendid video and very informative. I also like the style of your keyboard which one is it?
Krita can do most of what Photoshop can do for free. For vector graphics, Inkscape will do that in the place of Illustrator also for free.
missing your customized color projects brother... wish you bring some more cool color projects!
Id be careful with alcohol. It can strip the silkscreen of pcbs. Probably cheaper ones but it can happen.
It's not useless anymore but it's still very bad.
If your time has no value and you eat from garbage cans this is a good route to get a PC.
If your time has value you can just buy a much better used PC for very little money.
30 to 40 fps on crysis its like more than 100 fps for me
Please don't ever stop sending us These videos
I'm a huge FAN of your Work
Thank youuu for the support :)
@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew No problem
Do more restoration i like them
Ah, the i5-2500k. My sis had the equally venerable i5-2400 in her rig some ten years ago.
Gotta say, the Sandy Bridge architecture was a real banger back in its heyday.
The build quality of the older components is much greater than the newer ones. Few moths ago I build one with Z690 motherboard. The motherboard was like a carboard, and sata has not working, we change the motherboard again the same problem. Yes the PC is great, fast, powerful but kinder egg quality materials
I need a computer running Linux for my study of Computer Science, I can't buy a new one.
Did you think of cleaning motherboard in soap water and leaving it to dry for 24 hours?
All these bays, you should trash it for any modern case.
Why you need this old build, running what on it ?
Burn marks in the case looks like psu at one stage has been replaced I've seen alot of that as I started building pcs from 1999
the sticky stuff probably cause the owner might have been a smoker
Can you test Genshin Impact performance on each video after fishing restoration
love the content! ❤
Power consumption has become an important priority today. I think this is one of the reasons(besides the size) why the desktop PC faded away.
Power consumption, mobility and processing power. Todays laptops become very powerful, you can take everywhere and is more power efficient. Just an example: the GTX 690 at full speed can pull about 120 - 140W. One very high performances gaming laptop will pull about 150-200W, the average to other laptops is about 50W